Athlete Agents

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GREAT NEWS FOR ATHLETE AGENTS IN FLORIDA!

The 2020 Athlete Agent licensure renewal has a 100% Fee waiver in effect for this renewal period. Athlete Agents licenses that are current active will automatically renew without a fee.

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Athlete Agents

Richard “Rick” Morrison, Executive Director

The Department of Business and Professional Regulation is responsible for licensing and regulating athlete agents. The Department’s Bureau of Central Intake and Licensure processes applications for licensure and refers complex applications to the athlete agents licensing office for final review. The Division of Regulation is responsible for complaint analysis and investigations, and the Office of the General Counsel provides prosecutorial services for disciplinary cases. The Department engages in rulemaking to implement the provisions set forth in its statutes and conducts other general business, as necessary.

Getting Started In Athlete Agents

Athlete Agent

AG – An “athlete agent” means a person who, directly or indirectly, recruits or solicits a student athlete to enter into an agent contract, or who, for any type of financial gain, procures, offers, promises, or attempts to obtain employment or promotional fees or benefits for a student athlete with a professional sports team or as a professional athlete, or with any promoter who markets or attempts to market the student athlete’s athletic ability or athletic reputation.
In general a “student-athlete” means any student who has informed, in writing, a college or university in Florida of their intent to participate in that school’s intercollegiate athletics, or who does participate in that school’s intercollegiate athletics and is eligible to do so.